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Nowhere nearly so lucky was Italy's No. 1 driver, Lorenzo Bandini, 31. Roaring out of the tunnel into sunlight, Bandini's Ferrari caromed off a guard rail, slammed into a lamppost, flipped over and burst into flame. It took rescuers four excruciating minutes to pull him out. Doctors charted ten chest fractures and third-degree burns over 70% of his body. Three days later he died...
...fact, is the result of a dark pigment that rises from mid-level layers of the skin in an effort to guard against further assaults by the sun. But such tanning was not thought of in the U.S. as a sign of health until the 1920s, after sunlight had been publicized as a treatment for tuberculosis. It does indeed increase body production of Vitamin D, which helps control TB, but it has no other beneficial effects except occasional help for a case of acne or psoriasis...
Sitting in the sunlight, says Dr. Wilson, is good only for plants. "If you don't have chlorophyll in your veins and arteries, direct sunlight can do you nothing but harm.† Human beings would be healthy if they lived inside a building or cave all the time and never went out in the sun." They would also, of course, be pallid, and in today's civilization a pasty hue is no sign of beauty. Aware of that, Dr. Wilson suggests use of an "instant tan" product. For those who insist on the sun, he advises the most...
Chunky Highlights. In all this Disneyland atmosphere, the handsomest work was undoubtedly the most stationary: the many varieties of outsized, technologically sophisticated minimal sculpture, much of it stationed outdoors (see color pages). David Von Schlegell's 42-ft.-long jet delta wings gleamed in the sunlight like anchors for interplanetary fleets. Robert Grosvenor's 24-ft.-long yellow Still No Title lanced downward from a portico of the museum building like a bolt of sunlight, ending a breath-taking eight inches from the pavement. John McCracken's brilliant blue column reflected shades upon shades of the California...
...grabs was the richly carved and graven Temple of Dendur, Greco-Roman Egyptian ruin that has slumbered for 2,000 years in the crystalline Egyptian sunlight, 130 miles up the Nile from Luxor. It was originally dedicated to two Egyptian brothers, Petesi and Pihor, who had been drowned in the Nile. When the rising waters of the 300-mile-long lake formed by the Aswan High Dam similarly threatened to engulf their sanctuary, the Egyptian government had it dismantled into 650 pieces in 1962. The temple was offered to the U.S. in gratitude for a $16 million U.S. contribution toward...